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Small Poster “Salzburg Festival Funfair in Prague”, 1936

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Estate of Emil Pirchan,
Steffan/Pabst Collection,
Zurich
Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Estate of Emil Pirchan,
Steffan/Pabst Collection,
Zurich
Color lithograph on paper
20.9×16.1 cm

Artists

  • Emil Pirchan

    (Brno 1884–1957 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Emil Pirchan (1884–1957) studied architecture at the class of Otto Wagner (1841–1918) from 1903 to 1906 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently worked primarily as a commercial artist, and from 1919 was among the leading stage designers in the German-speaking world. By his own admission, the universally talented artist created more than 1,500 works of commercial art when he lived in Munich between 1908 and 1918, including some 50 posters, numerous logos, bookplates, poster stamps, designs for packaging, technical illustrations for user manuals, calendar sheets, invitation cards, book illustrations, templates for flyleaves, coloring books for children as well as playing cards. In 1913, he founded a private art school for advertising art in Munich. His works in the genre of commercial art, which the artist occasionally turned to during the interwar period, mostly related to the theater, as in the case of the poster advertising the Salzburg Festival Funfair, a fundraising event benefitting a pension insurance company for soloists of the German Theater in Prague. In the metropolis on the Vltava, where the artist lived and worked from 1932 to 1936, Pirchan also participated in Czech theater productions.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Emil Pirchan
Title
Small Poster “Salzburg Festival Funfair in Prague”
Date
1936
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Color lithograph on paper
Dimensions
20.9×16.1 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6447, donation Collection Steffan/Pabst
Inventory access
Accession 2019 2020
Keywords

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Emil Pirchan, Zürich (1957);
Dr. Beat Steffan, Zürich (um 2010-2020); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2020). (2)

  1. Bild / Ruhrgebiet vom 22.02.2019: Große Pirchan-Austellung in Essen. Dieser Kunstschatz lag auf dem Dachboden, https://emilpirchan.com/presse/ (Abruf: 16.05.2022)
  2. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Schenkungsvertrag vom 06.02.2020 und Übergabebestätigung vom 10.06.2020

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